Are Nouns Learned Before Verbs? Infants Provide Insight into a Longstanding Debate.
Are Nouns Learned Before Verbs? Infants Provide Insight into a Longstanding Debate.
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名词是先学还是动词？
DOI：
10.1111/cdep.12032
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发表时间：
2013
影响因子：
6.4
通讯作者：
Song,Hyun-Joo
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作者：
Waxman,Sandra;Fu,Xiaolan;Arunachalam,Sudha;Leddon,Erin;Geraghty,Kathleen;Song,Hyun-Joo
几十年来，关于婴儿学习单词的非凡能力主要是由人类语言的普遍特征还是由他们正在学习的特定母语的特定特征形成的，一直存在着激烈的争论。这场争论的一个焦点是早期单词学习的一个有据可查的差异：婴儿在学习动词方面的成功落后于他们在学习名词方面的成功。在这篇综述中，我们阐明了辩论的双方，并总结了来自婴儿的新的跨语言证据，这些证据强调了普遍特征的作用，并开始澄清明显不同的语言对早期语言和概念发展的影响。
For decades, a spirited debate has existed over whether infants’ remarkable capacity to learn words is shaped primarily by universal features of human language or by specific features of the particular native language they are acquiring. A strong focus for this debate has been a well‐documented difference in early word learning: Infants’ success in learning verbs lags behind their success in learning nouns. In this review, we articulate both sides of the debate and summarize new cross‐linguistic evidence from infants that underscores the role of universal features and begins to clarify the impact of distinctly different languages on early language and conceptual development.